Help Bring Our Family Back Together

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5 months ago

I have completely finished launching my campaign and hopeful kind generous people find our story to be one to donate to. Thank you and God Bless!

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My beautiful family includes myself, my partner of 9yrs, my two daughters 16 and 13 , son 17 and three queensland dogs. In 2020 I lost my job of 22 yrs due to covid-19. We had just moved into a new home 2 months before. We got assistance through housing is key .  They sent the owners a check for 24,000 To pay our rent. Not even a week later after they received the money we were served an eviction notice.  They got paid and never gave us a chance to start paying on our own again. So we ended up homeless, sleeping on friends' couches and garages. During that time my daughter got beat up by a friend of mine and her two daughters, and my children were extremely depressed and stressed, as well as struggled in school during this time. After 4 months we found a home to rent and near a school my daughter really wanted to go to. We were over the moon happy! After 11 months of living in the new rental we were served a no cause termination of tenancy notice. Because we were on a month to month lease and had been there less than a year so this was legal to do. I tried to fight it but was unsuccessful so we were forced to move once again and homeless once again and we have been homeless since, it's been about 9 months .  This time it's been much worse because we are all separated. Family and Friends haven't had room for all of us. My kids and I have been under the same roof since the day they were born so as you can imagine this has been extremely hard on all of us.  Also since we were evicted my children's father has been trying to go for full custody of them even though he has never had them or even tried to nor does he pay child support and if he does it's very little.  All he is doing is taking advantage of our situation we are in at the moment.  It's very possible he could get custody if we don't get a home soon. Moving into new rentals cost a lot of money with deposits and all that and plus we have to pay bigger deposit because now we have two evictions which were not our fault. Also when we lived in the last house during that time I purchased a car for 6,000 cash and the motor blew only 6 months after purchasing it so that was another big expense we were not expecting.  So due to all that we don't have money saved and it has been extremely hard to get ahead financially and have the funds to move into a new home.  Then getting scammed out of money we really didn't have just a couple days ago on a fundraising site was the last thing we needed.  So I am asking for donations to help go towards moving costs for a new home for my family and I and so if you find it in your hearts to do so and have the extra funds to do so we would be forever grateful and feel so blessed! 

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I have completely finished launching my campaign and hopeful kind generous people find our story to be one to donate to. Thank you and God Bless!

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